Forecast Of The Day: Discover’s Card Balance Outstanding

-11.69%
Downside
131
Market
116
Trefis
DFS: Discover Financial Services logo
DFS
Discover Financial Services

What?

Discover (NYSE:DFS) Card Balance Outstanding – the dollar value of the company’s credit cards loans outstanding – declined from $73 billion in 2019 to about $70 billion in 2021. Trefis expects the metric to rise to $71 billion in 2022 and to about $74 billion in 2023.

Why?

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The lower balances through 2020 and 2021 were due to weaker spending earlier in the pandemic and the potential impact of the U.S. stimulus which drove higher levels of pay downs.

So What?

With balances slated to rise and interest rates also trending higher, we expect Discover’s net interest revenues to improve. We value DFS stock at about $144 per share, 31% ahead of the current market price.

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Returns Mar 2022
MTD [1]
2022
YTD [1]
2017-22
Total [2]
 DFS Return -11% -5% 53%
 S&P 500 Return -3% -11% 90%
 Trefis MS Portfolio Return -4% -14% 239%

[1] Month-to-date and year-to-date as of 3/16/2022
[2] Cumulative total returns since the end of 2016

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